Friday, January 6, 2017

Endgame: Politics of Palestinian Statehood

According to Daniel 9:27, one of the last events
that will close the history of the nation of Israel, is a 7-year peace treaty
that would be forged by the Antichrist between Israel and her neighbours.This final “one week” (7 years) event will
commence immediately after the Church has been raptured and the partial
blindness on Israel begins to get lifted (Rom. 11:25).

Key endtime
events are doubly guaranteed to be fulfilled, by the fact that both Divine and
demonic strategies converge on them. In other words, both God and the Devil are
in perfect agreement that those events will come to pass.Rev 17:17 explains how this convergence
typically works out:

“For
God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their
kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”

The coming “peaceful” establishment of Israel in ALL
her historic promised land is one such classic endtime event.

The dying days of Obama’s administration has seen
him desperately pushing what he had been unable to do in eight years: decree into
existence a Palestinian state that would co-exist peacefully with the state of
Israel. Of course Barak Obama is doing this principally to spite and punish
Israel.

The desperate moves began with a resolution
(Resolution 2334) passed at the UN Security Council on December 23.The resolution essentially holds that Israel
is an occupier and usurper in any land from East Jerusalem (including the Temple
Mount and the Western Wall) throughout Judea and Samaria up to the Jordan
river.But this is the exact heartland
of Israel from the days of David to New Testament time! Apparently the UN
doesn’t think the Bible a reliable source of history! PM Benjamin Netanyahu avers that he has
iron-clad evidence that the resolution was actually drafted and pushed by Obama
administration, which pretended as only standing aloof of the development.

Next was the incendiary speech by John Kerry, outgoing
US secretary of state on December 28.After a lengthy lesson in history, Kerry sanctimoniously declared that
the Obama administration will be pushing every option necessary in order to
ensure a two –state solution remains viable in the Middle East.He correctly analysed that the possibility of
the two-state solution was fast fritzing away. Largely because the Palestinians
continue to glamourize and promote terror on Israel, and because Israel also
continues to build Jewish settlements in what might eventually be a Palestinian
state, if the two state option were to be realized.

However,
while Kerry mentioned the Palestinian terror issue merely in passing, he spent
the rest of his very very long speech attacking Israel’s settlement policy and eventually
demanded immediate stoppage. In his sharp response to the speech, Netanyahu
pointed out that the safety of Israel cannot be simply dismissed by some
“throwaway lines in a speech.”For
Israel, the grim reality translates to “hundreds of suicide bombings, thousand, tens of thousands of rockets,
millions of Israelis in bomb shelters “ – all because some people somewhere are
engineering theoretical policies only meant to gain “thunderous applause of the
world”.

According to Netanyahu, terror is an awful reality
that Israel would be happy to be free from, but which they are forced to live
with since the harbingers of terror have very little motivation to explore
alternative methods to achieve their goals. Furthermore, neither Kerry nor his
principal, Obama, are in any position to come teach Israel about the need for
peace!

It is well understood that both the resolution 2334
and the Kerry speech are desperate moves towards the possible declaration of a
Palestinian state by the UN Security Council before Trump cold be sworn in as
US president on January 20.A decisive
meeting, involving 70 nations is scheduled to hold in
Paris on January 15 to leverage on the speech by Kerry and attempt to push the
recognition of a Palestinian state through the UN!

Which brings us back to the immutability of the
Scriptures’ position on how these things would end.From the beginning, Israel had excitedly embraced
UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (November 29, 1947) calling for two states
for two people in “Palestine”; and on the strength of that, announced the
establishment of the State of Israel on a tiny portion of the land in 1948.The Arabs, assured of their military
superiority over the ramshackle Jewish forces at that time, rejected the idea
of a Jewish state, and threatened to overrun and annihilate it in a matter of
hours, should it be created. From that time till the present time, the Arabs
have woefully lost every war against Israel. More significantly, with each Arab
loss, the size of the state of Israel kept expanding as the Jews acquired more
and more land they never intended to gain! (For recent examples of obvious
divine interventions in the Israeli’s military campaigns, see http://churcharise.blogspot.com.ng/2014/09/israels-latest-50-day-war-harvest-of.htmland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOPAxLDGRIU )

Eventually, the Arabs (at least in the majority)
resigned to the reality of a militarily undefeatable Israel and settled for a
two-state solution – provided Israel would relinquish the land acquired through
the wars (provoked by the Arabs), especially since the 1967 six-day war.As subsequent events have clearly shown, most
of Israel (at least initially) had no serious objections to this demand.However, the Divine-demonic confluence
clearly kept pushing matters out of the hands of both the Jews and the Arabs.

To pressurize Israel, Arab governments had resorted
to use of suicidal youths to terrorize Israeli’s civilian population, as well
as attract global sympathy.And to get a
steady stream of suicidal youths, Arab leadership had to embark on a rigorous systematic
brainwashing of their population, programming them via both education and
religious institutions to uncompromisingly hate Israel.John Kerry himself described this situation in
his speech:

“And the most recent wave of Palestinian violence has
included hundreds of terrorist attacks in the past year, including stabbings,
shootings, vehicular attacks and bombings, many by individuals who have been
radicalized by social media. Yet the murderers of innocents are still glorified
on Fatah websites, including showing attackers next to Palestinian leaders
following attacks. And despite statements by President Abbas and his party’s
leaders making clear their opposition to violence, too often they send a different
message by failing to condemn specific terrorist attacks and naming public
squares, streets and schools after terrorists”

The inevitable outcome of this development is that
too many Palestinians have been radicalised to the point where, to them, the
concept of peaceful co-existence with the State of Israeli has now virtually
been precluded.To these hot-heads, the
allure of an independent Palestinian state is more in its value to hasten the
destruction of Israel!In his
autobiography, Son of Hamas, Mossab Yousef explains this situation:

“For Israel, the PLO nationalists had been simply a
political problem in need of a political solution.Hamas, on the other hand, Islamized the
Palestinian problem, making it a religious problem.And this problem could be resolved only with
a religious solution, which meant that it could never be resolved because we
believed that the land belonged to Allah.Period.End of discussion.Thus for Hamas, the ultimate problem was not
Israel’s policies.It was the nation-state
Israel’s very existence.”

This reality was clearly demonstrated during the
Camp David Summit in 2000, when President Bill Clinton got Israeli PM Ehud
Barak and PLO’s Yassef Arafat to negotiate peace directly. Mosab Hassan Yousef captured
the incredible outcome of the negotiations in these words:

“The Camp David Summit between Yasser Arafat,
American president Bill Clinton, and Israeli prime minister Ehud Brak ended on
July 25, 2000.Barak had offered Arafat
about 90 percent of the West Bank, the entire Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem as
the capital of a new Palestinian state.In addition, a new international fund would be established to compensate
Palestinians for the property that had been taken from them.This “land for peace” offer represented a historic
opportunity for the long-suffering Palestinian people, something few Palestinians
would have dared imagine possible.But
even so, it was not enough for Arafat.”

Mossab further explained how Arafat “had grown
extraordinarily wealthy as the international symbol of victimhood,” and he wasn’t too excited about giving up that
status to face the responsibility of actually building a functioning society.Moreover, there was always the guaranteed threat
of local assassins taking matter into their own hands, should any leader be
perceived to have sold-out!

PM Netanyahu affirmed
the same point in his sweeping peace offer to the Palestinian on the floor of
the UN in 2011.He reminded the entire
world:

“These
people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will
work out. You know, there's only one problem with that theory. We've tried it
and it hasn't worked. In 2000 Israel made a sweeping peace offer that met
virtually all of the Palestinian demands. Arafat rejected it. The Palestinians
then launched a terror attack that claimed a thousand Israeli lives.Prime Minister Olmert afterwards made an even
more sweeping offer, in 2008. President Abbas didn't even respond to it.”

In short, the singular most important point which US
Secretary John Kerry missed in his extensive lecture is the stark reality that
no Arab leader could now dare make peace with Israel unless the terms will
clearly guarantee the destruction of Israel.

Mossab Yousef in fact addressed himself to an
interesting hypothetical scenario: “I asked myself what Palestinians would do
if Israel disappeared – if everything not only went back to the way it was
before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were
scattered again.And for the first time,
I knew the answer. We would still fight.Over nothing.Over a girl without
a head scarf.Over who was toughest and
most important.Over who would make the
rules and who would get the best seat”

In conclusion, even when the Israelis appear
desperate enough to be willing to swap land for peace, some higher forces
seemed to always play out, moving the Palestinians to take steps that only end
up giving more land to Israel.This
outcome fits both the divine agenda that Israel would be restored all her
historic land, and the demonic agenda that would not stop at anything but the ultimate
annihilation of Israel.Humanly speaking,
the two-state concept is an obvious “reasonable” solution; but both divine and
demonic strategies seem to squarely oppose such an outcome.

From his early days in office, Benjamin Netanyahu
has repeatedly stated his willingness to directly
discuss a two-state solution with Palestinian leadership.Even though his belief in that form of
solution has obviously considerably waned, he
still keeps the option opened.But as John
Kerry point-blankly stated (and as confirmed in several other reports) most Palestinians now
consider the two-state solution a dead option.

Obama’s last minute desperate resolves seek to crash
the unending ding-dong game and enforce a solution once and for all!The days (literally) ahead will reveal where it would
all end; but suffice to say, the events playing out before our very eyes are of
mighty Biblical proportions.The endgame
is certainly here.

About Church Arise! LivingWater Ministries

The Church Arise! LivingWater Ministries (CALM), Ile-Ife, Nigeria is a non-denominational non-profit organization whose vision is to arouse the Body of Christ to the challenges and opportunities of these end times. We seek to warn about the wiles of the devil (on a wild rampage knowing that he has but a short time Rev 12:12); and simultaneously encourage the Children of God to maintain a Kingdom perspective viz-a-viz daily occurring issues, which appearing mundane on the surface, could actually turn out to be of eternal consequences. We dare not fritter away the great priviledge of being on planet Earth at a time like these (see Matthew 13:17).
The vision for the ministry was received at the 1997 God's End-Time Army Conference; and operations commenced January 1, 1998 with the launching of Vol 1 No 1 of the bi-monthly newsletter, Church Arise!.
The ministry was formally launched on April 6 2001 by a team led by Bishop Francis Wale Oke (SOTSM), Pastor Adewole Haastrup (RCCG) and HRH, Pastor Julius Fatanmi (RCCG).
Dr Joshua Ojo is the President.
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